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Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Paris
Abetz, Otto: German Ambassador, imprisonment and death
Abetz, Suzanne (née de Bruyker)
abortion
Abshagen, Ingeborg see Haag, Inga
Abwehr (German military intelligence)
Académie Goncourt, L’
Action Française
ADIR (Association Nationale des
Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance), Voix et Visages (newsletter)
Agniel, Michèle
Aimée, Anouk (née Françoise Sorya Dreyfus)
air raids: Allied
Aix-en-Provence: Music Festival
Albert-Lake, Virginia d’
Albin Michel (publishers)
Albrecht, Berty
Alincourt, Jacqueline d’ see Péry d’Alincourt, Jacqueline
Alincourt, Joseph d’
Allégret, Yves
Alliance resistance network
Allied invasion (1944): Normandy landings (June) Mediterranean coast (August)
Alsop, Susan Mary see Patten, Susan Mary
Amalie Zephyrine, Princess of Salm-Kyrburg
American Hospital in Paris
American Library in Paris
Amicale des Prisonnières de la Résistance
Amies de la Paix, Les
Amiot, Félix, ambulance drivers, women volunteer
Anissimov, Myriam
Anrath, Germany: prison
Antelme, France
Antelme, Marie-Louise
Antelme, Robert
Anthonioz, Bernard
anti-Semitism: in France in Germany
Apcar, Frédéric
Aragon, Louis
Arc de Triomphe
Arden, Elizabeth
Arendt, Hannah
Arletty (actress) relationship with German officer arrest, trial and punishment; later life and death
armistice (22 June 1940)
Arpels, Esther (later Estelle Van Cleef)
Arpels, Hélène (née Ostrowska)
Arpels, Louis
Arpels, Salomon
Arpels, Theresa (née Mayer)
Art Deco
art galleries and exhibitions: during Occupation post-liberation; post-war; see also Louvre
Art Moderne, Musée d’
artworks: expropriation ‘degenerate’ and banned destruction restitution attempts
Association Nationale des Anciennes Déportées et Internées de la Résistance see ADIR
ATD Fourth World (anti-poverty movement)
Atkins, Vera (née Rosenberg); background and early life SOE operative; post-war search for missing agents
Au bonheur des dames (film)
Aubrac, Lucie
Auchincloss, Janet (earlier Bouvier)
Auric, Georges
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Auslander, Leora
Austerlitz, Gare d’; warehouse and labour camp
avant-garde art
Avignon
Ayral, Jean
Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Baden-Baden, Germany
Bader, Théophile
Badoul, Lucie (‘Youki’; later Desnos)
Baker, Josephine
Baker, Nora see Inayat Khan, Noor
Baker, Ora (later Ameena Begum)
Bal Tabarin (music hall)
Balenciaga (couture house)
Ballard, Bettina
Ballets Russes, balls: pre-war; wartime; post-war
Balmain, Pierre
Bandol (Var), banks and banking
Banque Charles
Barbie, Klaus
Barbier, Elisabeth
Barcelona
Bardiau, Andrée
Barrault, Jean-Louis
Baseden, Yvonne
Bassano, Rue de: warehouse and labour camp
Baudelaire, Charles: Les Fleurs du Mal,
Baur, Harry
Bayeux (Calvados)
Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Bayreuth Festival
BBC: Free French broadcasts
Beach, Sylvia
Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret): internment camp
Beauvoir, Simone de; and Violette Leduc; The Second Sex
Beaux, Ernest
Becker-Rémy, Marc Edouard Marie de
Bedford, Hôtel
Bedford, Sybille
Będzin, Poland
Beekman, Yolande
Behr, Baron Kurt von
Belgium: German invasion; refugees, Jewish deportations
Bell, Marie
Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan)
Bellos, David
Belmondo, Paul
Belperron, Jean
Belperron, Suzanne (née Vuillerme)
Bemelmans, Ludwig: Madeline books
Benet, Paco
Benjamin, Dora
Bérard, Christian
Bercy
Bergen-Belsen (concentration camp)
Berlin Staatskapelle
Berlitz, Palais: Le Juif et la France exhibition
Bermuda
Bernadotte, Count Folke
Bernhard, Thomas
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernheim-Jeune, Galerie
Berr, Antoinette
Berr, Denise
Berr, Hélène deportation and death diary commemoration
Berr, Raymond
Bès, Andrée
Besançon (Doubs); internment camp
Bethlehem, Connecticut
Bettina (Simone Bodin)
Biarritz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
bicycles
Bigard, Andrée
Bilbao
Billancourt Studios
birds, death of
birth control
birth rate
Bischoffsheim, Maurice
black market: wartime, post-war
Bloch, Denise
Bluebell Girls (dance troupe)
Blum, Jeanne
Blum, Léon
Blum, Suzanne
Blumer, Fritz
Bobigny
Bodin, Simone (Bettina)
Boeuf sur le Toit, Le (restaurant)
Bohic, Pauline
Boivin, Jeanne
Boivin, René
bombing raids see air raids
Bonnard, Abel
Bonnet, Georges
Bonney, Mabel Thérèse: Europe’s Children
Bonny, Pierre: Bonny-Lafont gang
Bood, Micheline
books, banned
Bordeaux; French government moves to
Borrel, Andrée
Boucheron (jewellers)
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
Boulanger, Nadia
Boulogne, Bois de
Bourjois (cosmetics company)
Bousquet, Marie-Louise
Bousquet, René, Bousquet-Oberg accords (July 1942)
Boussac, Marcel
Bouvier, Jacqueline (later Kennedy)
Boyer, Lucienne
Boysson, Guy de
Boysson, Vivou de see Chevrillon, Vivou
Braque, Georges
Brassilach, Robert; trial and execution
Braudy, Susan
Brauner, Victor
Breker, Arno
Breton, André
Bretty, Béatrice (née Bolchesi)
Brinon, Fernand, Marquis de
Brinon, Lisette, Marquise de (née Franck)
Brinton, Crane
Bristol, Hôtel
British Council
British Embassy, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
British Expeditionary Force: Dunkirk evacuation
Broglie, Daisy de see Fellowes, Daisy
Brossolette, Pierre
brothels
Bruant, Aristide
Brunhoff, Jean de: Babar stories
Brunner, Alois
Buchenwald (concentration camp)
Bucher, Jeanne
Buckmaster, Maurice
Buisson, Patrick: 1940–1945: Années érotiques
Bullitt, William
Buñuel, Luis
Bussière, Amédée
cabaret and music hall
Caen (Calvados)
cafés see restaurants and cafés
Cahen d’Anvers, Irène (later Sampieri) Renoir portrait
Cahen d’Anvers, Louis-Raphaël
Cahen d’Anvers, Louise
Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Calef, Henri
Camondo, Béatrice de (later Reinach) internment and deportation; death
Camondo, Count Moïse de
Camondo, Nissim de
Camus, Albert
Canaris, Wilhelm
Candide (newspaper)
Cannes
Cap d’Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes): Château de la Croë
Cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes)
Capa, Robert
Capel, Arthur Edward (‘Boy’)
Carbuccia, Horace de
Carinhall, Germany
Carnarvon, George Herbert, 5th Earl of
Carné, Marcel
Caron, Leslie
cars: requisitioning of; used for L’Exode,; Citroën Traction Avant wartime permits for use; manufacture; see also motor racing
Cartier, Louis
Cartier (jewellers)
Carven, Marie-Louise (née Carmen de Tommaso)
Casablanca
Casablanca (film)
Casadesus, Gisèle
Casanova, Danielle
Cassis (Bouches-du-Rhône)
Cecil, Hôtel
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
Cézanne, Paul
CGQJ see Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives
Chabanais, Le (brothel)
Chaillet, Pierre
Chalmaison (Seine-et-Marne)
Chamberlain, Neville
Chambon-sur-Lignon, Le (Haute-Loire)
Chambord, Château de (Loir-et-Cher)
Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture
Chambrun, Josée, Comtesse de (née Laval) father’s trial and post-war life
Chambrun, René, Comte de (‘Bunny’)
Chanel, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ relationship with Hans Günther von Dincklage arrest and questioning; legal battles over company control post-war life
Chanel (couture and luxury goods house) closure at outbreak of war; ownership dispute; perfumes
Chantilly (Oise); Hippodrome
Chantilly Theatre, Rue Fontaine
Chaplin, Sir Charlie
Chareau, Pierre
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles-Roux, Edmonde
Chasseloup-Laubat, Marie-Louise Marquise de
Châtel (Haute-Savoie)
Châteldon (Puy-de-Dome)
Chaumet (jewellers)
Cherbourg
Cherche-Midi (military prison)
Chevalier, Maurice
Chevigné, Laure, Comtesse de
Chevrillon, André
Chevrillon, Claire (‘Christiane Clouet’)
Chevrillon, Vivou (later de Boysson)
Child, Julia; Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Child, Paul
Chirac, Jacques
choice: as human freedom, women and
Choltitz, Dietrich von
Churchill, Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill
Churchill, Odette (earlier Sansom; afterwards Hallowes)
Churchill, Peter
Churchill, Sir Winston: wartime Prime Minister, and SOE; and arrest of Coco, Chanel, at British Embassy ball, ‘Iron Curtain’ speech
CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency)
Ciano, Galeazzo, Count
cinema see films
Clarens, Jeannie, Viscomtesse de see Rousseau, Jeannie
Claudel, Paul: Le Soulier de satin
clothes and fashion, pre-war wartime designs and improvisations rationing and black market; post-liberation post-war, see also couture industry; hats; shoes; stockings
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
coal shortages
Coard, Marcel
Coca-Cola (corporation)
Cocteau, Jean visits lover at the front
Cohen, Richard
Cold War
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle Chéri Paris From My Window
collaboration horizontale, post-liberation treatment of suspects
collaborators: wartime executions; post-liberation trials and punishments of suspects
Collège de France
‘combatant’: legal definitions of
Combescot, Pierre
Comédie-Française
Comet Line (resistance group)
Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ)
Commission de Récupération Artistique (CRA)
communists and communism: wartime, post-war
Compiègne (Oise): signing of armistice (June 1940), internment camp
concentration camps see Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Buchenwald; Dachau; Ellrich; Mauthausen; Natzweiler-Struthof; Neuengamme; Ravensbrück; Theresienstadt
Conciergerie, La (prison)
concierges, apartment building
Condorcet, Lycée
Confédération Générale du Travail
Congo
Conrad, Doda: Dodascalies
Conservatoire, Paris
Constitution (Fourth Republic)
Continental Studios (film company)
cooking see food and cooking
Cooper, Lady Diana (later Viscountess Norwich)
Cooper, Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich)
Corbeau, Le (film)
Cordon Bleu, Ecole le
Cortot, Alfred
cosmetics see make-up and cosmetics
Cossé-Brissac, Marie Pierre de
Costet, Jacques
Cournand, Sybille
Courrier de l’Air, Le (resistance news-sheet)
couture industry: pre-war; wartime post-liberation, post-war see also clothes and fashion
Coward, Sir Noël
CRA see Commission de Récupération Artistique
Cramm, Baron Gottfried von
Cranach, Lucas, the Elder
Cravoisier, Marguerite
Crespin, Régine
Cripps, Sir Stafford
Croix de guerre: awarded to women
Croix-Rouge Française see Red Cross, French
cubism
Curateau, Marinette
curfew, wartime
Curie, Marie
cycling
Czechoslovakia; German invasion displaced children
D-Day see Normandy landings
Dachau (concentration camp)
Daladier, Edouard
d’Albert-Lake, Virginia
Dalí, Salvador
d’Alincourt, Jacqueline see Péry d’Alincourt, Jacqueline
Dalmaso, Anne Marie
Dalsace, Jean
Damascus
Damerment, Madeleine
Dangel, Clément
Daniel-Rops (Henri Petiot)
Danneker, Theodor
Darcque, Séverine
Darlan, François
Darling, Alice
Darnand, Joseph
Darrieux, Danielle
David, Marcel
de Gaulle see under Gaulle
de Wolfe, Elsie (Lady Mendl)
Deauville (Calvados)
Debré, Robert
Défense de la France, La (resistance newspaper)
Degas, Edgar
dégradation nationale (post-liberation punishment)
Delaune, Auguste
Delius, Frederick: Paris: The Song of a Great City
Delmas, Irène
Démétrian, Dr (psychoanalyst)
demonstrations: anti-Nazi; over food supplies
denunciations
deportees see under Jewish population; political prisoners
Dérain, André
Déricourt, Henri
Dernier Métro, Le (film)
Dernier Tournant, Le (film)
Desnos, Robert
Desnos, Youki (earlier Lucie Badoul)
Desoubrie, Jacques (‘Jean Masson’)
Deux Magots, Les (café)
Devisenschutzkommando (foreign currency protection command)
Diebold, Laure
Dietlin, Liliane
Dietrich, Marlene
Dinard (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Dincklage, Baron Hans Günther von (‘Spatz’)
Dincklage, Maximiliane von (‘Catsy’) see Schoenbeck, Mazimiliane von
Dior, Catherine
Dior, Christian: pre-war career, during wartime, post-war couture house, New Look
Doisneau, Robert
Doucet, Andrée
Doukan, Gilbert
Drancy
Drancy (internment camp), Nazi control escape attempts, UGIF services, liberation, post-liberation use
Dresden
Dreyfus, Alfred
Dreyfus, Henry (Henry Murray)
Dreyfus, Lucie (née Hadamard)
Dreyfus-Le Foyer, Henri
Dreyfus Lévy, Madeleine
Drieu La Rochelle, Pierre
Dudley Ward, Freda
Dufournier, Denise (later McAdam Clark), background and early life, resistance work in Ravensbrück, returns to Paris, post-war life La Maison des mortes,
Dufy, Raoul
Duhamel, Georges
Dumot, Julie
Dunkirk evacuation (1940)
Durand, Marie
Duras, Marguerite
Dussaix, Charles
Dussurget, Gabriel
Echanges (literary magazine)
Economic Cooperation Administration
education: women’s
EFI see Entr’aide Française Israélite
Eiffel Tower
Einsatzstarb Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR)
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
elections: (1945), (1946)
Elizabeth, Princess (later Queen Elizabeth II) visits Paris
Elizabeth, Queen consort (later Queen Mother)
Elle (magazine)
Ellington, Duke
Ellrich (concentration camp)
Eluard, Nusch
Eluard, Paul
Emer, Michel
Emergency Rescue Committee
emigration
Emmaus (homeless charity)
employment, women’s see also volunteer work
Enfants de paradis, Les (film)
Enghien-les-Bains
Entr’aide Française Israélite (EFI)
Ephrussi family
Ephrussi, Charles
Ephrussi de Rothschild, Béatrice
Epstein, Denise
Epstein, Elisabeth see Gille, Elisabeth
Epstein, Michel
épuration légale (post-liberation trials)
épuration sauvage (post-liberation retribution attacks)
Erlbaum, Rachel
Ernst, Max
ERR see Einsatzstarb Reichsleiter Rosenberg
Errázuriz, María
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
Esménard, Robert
Est, Gare de l’
Etoile de Kléber, L’ (nightclub/brothel)
European Recovery Program (Marshall Plan)
exchange rates, currency
Exode, L’ (post-Occupation evacuation)
Fabiani, Martin
Fabius, Charles
Fabius, Marie-Claude (later Hayman)
Fabius, Odette (née Schmoll), background and early life, marriage, volunteer ambulance driver, life under Occupation, resistance work relationship with Pierre Ferri-Pisani arrest and imprisonment, deportation, in Ravensbrück release, post-war life
Fabius, Robert
Fairbanks, Douglas
FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry)
fashion see clothes; couture industry
Fath, Geniève
Fath, Jacques
Faucigny-Lucinge family
Fauré, Gabriel
Faÿ, Bernard
Fédération Française Sportive Féminine (FFSF)
Fellowes, Daisy (earlier de Broglie)
feminism
Fenby, Jonathan
Ferri-Pisani, Pierre
Ferriday, Caroline
FFI (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur)
Figaro, Le (newspaper)
films
Firkušný, Rudolf
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry see FANY
First World War, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Verdun
Fitzgerald, F. Scott; The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Flagstad, Kirsten
Flanner, Janet
Flato, Paul
Fleur de l’âge, La (film)
Fleurieu, Tania, Comtesse de
Fleury, Guy
Fleury, Jacqueline (née Marié), in Ravensbrück, returns to Paris, post-war life
Flore, Café de
‘Florence et Frédéric’ see Apcar, Frédéric, Rigal, Sadie
Florence Gould Foundation (charity)
Foch, Avenue: No
Folies Bergère
Fondation Eugène Napoléon
Fontainebleau
food and cooking: pre-war, wartime rationing, black market, canteens and soup kitchens, food riots and demonstrations, in Ravensbrück, post-liberation, post-war see also restaurants and cafés
Foot, M.R.D.
Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (FFI)
Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine (‘Hedgehog’)
Fournier, Pierre
Fourth Republic: Constitution and laws
Fraenkel, Ghita (née Luchaire)
Fraenkel, Théodore
Fraigneau, André
France Forever (US support organization)
France Libre (newspaper)
Francis Holland School, London
Franck, Jeanne Louise Rachel see Brinon Lisette, Marquise de
Franco, Francisco
Frankl, Viktor: Man’s Search for Meaning, ix
Fraysse, Jean
Frenay, Henri
Fresnes (prison)
Freund, Marya
Fry, Varian
fuel shortages
Fürstenberg, Germany
Furtado, Abraham
Gaité Parisienne (cabaret)
Galeries Lafayette (department stores)
Galliano, John
Galtier-Boissière, Jean
Garry, Emile
Garry, Renée
Gary, Romain gas masks
Gauguin, Paul
Gaulle, Bernard de
Gaulle, Charles de: flies to Britain, leader of Free French in London, appel of 18 June 1940; public support for; and armed resistance, and imprisonment of Georges Mandel, arrival in post-liberation Paris, post-liberation provisional government, and épuration légale, and release of niece from Ravensbrück; VE Day speech, British Ambassador’s views on, and role of SOE, resignation (January 1946), witness at niece’s wedding, and deportation of Jews, and outlawing of brothels, on collaboration and resistance, later life
Gaulle, Roger de
Gaulle, Sylvie de (née Geoffroy-Dechaume)
Gaulle, Xavier de
Gaulle, Yvonne de
Gaulle Anthonioz, Geneviève de, in Ravensbrück, establishment of ADIR and post-war life and career, commemoration
gay marriage
Gellhorn, Martha
Geneva Convention: on role of women
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Adolphe-Victor
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Antoine
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Charles
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Claude
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Denis
Geoffroy-Dechaume, François
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Jean-Pierre
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Marie-France see MacCarthy, Marie-France
Geoffroy-Dechaume, Sylvie see Gaulle Sylvie de
George Cross (medal)
George V, Hôtel
Géraldy, Paul
Gerbe, La (magazine)
Gerlach, Wolrad
German Army of Occupation: enters Paris; early attitudes to numbers and costs entertainment of
French women’s relationships with surrender
German Embassy, Rue de Lille
German women in Paris
Giacometti, Alberto
Gibraltar
Gide, André
Gille, Elisabeth (née Epstein), Le Mirador
Gilot, Françoise, Life with Picasso,
Girard, Anise (later Postel-Vinay)
Giraud, Marie-Louise
Giroud, Françoise
Glanzberg, Norbert
Glencoe, Illinois
Gluck, Christoph Willibald: Alceste
Goa, Max and Madeleine
Goebbels, Joseph
Goetz, Henri
Goetz, Josef
Goldberg (pianist)
Gone with the Wind (book and film)
Göring, Hermann; looted art collection
Goudeket, Maurice
Gould, Florence (née Lacaze)
Gould, Frank Jay
Gould, Jay
Goya, Francisco
Grand Guignol (theatre)
Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées
Grand Synagogue, Rue de la Victoire
Granrut, Claude du (née de Renty)
Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes)
Graulhet (Tarn)
Graziani, Gilbert
Graziano, Bettina (Simone Bodin)
Great War see First World War
Grebel, Arlette
Grenoble
‘Grey Mice’ see German women in Paris
Grimbert, Philippe: A Secret
Gringoire (newspaper)
Grumberg, Jean-Claude
Grynszpan, Herschel
Guéhenno, Jean
Guérin, Charles
Guérisse, Albert (‘Pat O’Leary’)
Guette, Château de la (Villeneuve-Saint-Denis)
Guézennec, Lucienne (Marie-Antoinette Morat)
guillotine, last people guillotined
Guitry, Sacha
Guller, Youra
Gurs (Pyrénées-Atlantiques): internment camp
Gypsies
Haag, Inga (née Abshagen)
Haag, Werner
Hachette (publishers)
Hackin, Marie
Hadamard, Lucie (later Dreyfus)
hairstyles
Halles, Les (market)
Hamburg; Ravensbrück trials (1946–48)
Hamburger, Jean
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hardon, Eugénie
Hardy, Françoise
Hardy, Madeleine
Harper, Allanah
Harper’s Bazaar (magazine)
Haskil, Clara
hats and millinery
Hayman, Marie-Claude see Fabius Marie-Claude
Heer, Joyce Helen
Helena Rubinstein (cosmetics company)
Hella (Polish Ravensbrück detainee)
Heller, Gerhard
Helm, Sarah
Hemingway, Ernest
Hendaye (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Henry, Marcelle
Hermès (luxury goods company)
Herz, Bernard
Herz, Jean
Heymann, Claire
Himmler, Heinrich
Hitler, Adolf: rise to power, and Olympic Games, at 1939 Bayreuth festival, on coming of war, and occupation of Paris, Compiègne armistice, visits Paris, meets Pétain and Laval, plots against and Allied invasion of France, last months of war, Mem Kampf
homelessness: post-war
Homme et une femme, Un (film)
homosexuality, gay marriage see also lesbianism horseracing
Horst, Horst
hostesses, society
Houssaye, Château de (Seine-et-Marne)
Hugnet, Georges
Humamté, L’ (newspaper)
Humbert, Agnès
hunting
IEQJ see Institut d’Etude des Questions Juives
Ignatius, David
Inayat Khan, Noor (Nora Baker); background and early life, SOE agent, arrest and imprisonment death, posthumous award, Twenty Jataka Tales
Inayat Khan, Vilayat
indignité nationale (post-liberation offence)
Ingram, Hermann von
Institut d’Etude des Questions Juives (IEQJ), Le Juif et la France exhibition
Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po)
internment camps see Beaune-la-Rolande, Besançon, Compiègne, Drancy, Gurs, Pithiviers, Rivesaltes, Vittel
Invalides, Les
‘Iron Curtain’: Churchill’s speech on (1946)
Israel
Issy-l’Evêque (Saône-et-Loire)
Ivry, Benjamin
Jackson, Charlotte (Toquette; née Barrelet de Ricout)
Jackson, Julian
Jackson, Phillip
Jackson, Sumner Waldron
Jacob, Denise see Vernay, Denise
Jacob, Madeleine
Jacob, Simone see Veil, Simone
Jacob, Yvonne
Jacques, Anne
Jamaica
Jamet, Fabienne
Jardin des Modes, Les (magazine)
Jaujard, Jacques
jazz music
Je suis partout (newspaper)
Jean Patou (couture house)
Jeanmaire, Zizi
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jepson, Selwyn
Jeu de Paume Museum
Jew Süss (film)
jewellery trade
Jewish Combat Organization (resistance network)
Jewish population: pre-war immigration and refugees, numbers of, expropriation of artworks and possessions, Vichy laws against, emigration, first waves of arrests and internment, anti-Jewish propaganda, Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF), first deportations, introduction of yellow star badges, Vel’ d’Hiv round-up (July 1942), convoys to Nazi camps, post-round-up life in Paris, French attempts to save, return of survivors from concentration camps, attempts to recover looted property, post-liberation organizations, post-war life in Paris, care of orphans documentation on wartime treatment of, post-war views on deportees, see also anti-Semitism
Job, Jacqueline
Job, Mariette
Jockey Club de Paris
‘Johann’ (Wehrmacht soldier)
Jongh, Andrée de (‘Dédée’)
Josipovici, Sacha
Jouhandeau, Elise
Jouhandeau, Marcel, Le Péril Juif
journalists and reporters, women
Juan-les-Pins (Alpes-Maritimes)
Juif et la France, Le (exhibition)
Jünger, Ernst; Storm of Steel
Jünger, Gretha
Junkers (aircraft manufacturer)
Kaminker, André
Kaminker, Georgette
Kaminker, Simone see Signoret, Simone
Kandinsky, Wassily
Karajan, Herbert von
Karlsruhe, Germany: prison
Kaufer, Cécile Widerman
Kelly, Margaret (‘Bluebell’; later Leibovici)
Kempff, Wilhelm
Kennedy, Jacqueline see Bouvier Jacqueline
Kerambrun, François
Kerylos, Villa (Alpes-Maritimes)
Khan, Prince Aly
Kieffer, Hans
Kiejman, Claude-Catherine
Klarsfeld, Serge
Klee, Paul
Knoller, Freddie (‘Robert Metzner’)
Kosma, Joseph
Krajcer, Annette
Kristallnacht (November 1938)
Kundera, Rudolf
La Fayette, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de labour camps: in Germany in Spain
Lacan, Jacques
Lacaze, Florence see Gould, Florence
Lacaze, René Sim
Lacombe (film)
Lafont, Henri; Bonny-Lafont gang
Lagrave, Yolande
Lamana, Manuel
Lamarque, Georges
Lancel (leather goods company)
Lanckarońska, Countess Karolina
Lange, Hans Joachim
Langevin, Paul
Langlade, Lucie de
Lanvin, Jeanne
Laon (Aisne)
Lapérouse (restaurant)
lapins (victims of medical experimentation)
Larousse Gastronomique,
Larue (restaurant)
Laski, Harold
Laski, Marghanita: Little Boy Lost,
Laskine, Lily
Laurencin, Marie
Laurens, Henri
Laval, Josée see Chambrun, Josée Comtesse de
Laval, Pierre: background and character, visits US as pre-war Prime Minister, Vice-President of Vichy government, meets Hitler, use of daughter as courier, returns as Prime Minister, and deportation of Jews, social life, flees to Germany, arrest, imprisonment and trial, execution, family dogs Diary
Lavandou, Le (Var)
Lawrence, Marjorie
Le Bihan, François
Le Boterf, Hervé
Le Porz, Louise (Loulou)
Leander, Zarah
Leclerc, Philippe
Lecoq, Violette
Leduc, Violette; La Bâtarde
Lefkovich, Sara
Lefort, Cecily
Léger, Fernand
Légion d’honneur: awarded to women
Legrand, Suzanne
Leibovici, Marcel
Leigh, Eugene
Leigh, Vera
Leimer, Hans
Leipzig, Germany
Leiris, Michel
Leleu, Sylvette
Lelong, Lucien
Lelouch, Claude
Leplée, Louis
lesbianism
Léséleuc, Paul, Comte de
Lesparre (Gironde)
Lévitan (warehouse and labour camp)
Lévy, Jean
Lewitsky, Anatole
Leyton, Drue see Tartière, Drue
Liberation of Paris (August 1944)
Liebenau, Germany
Lifar, Serge
Life (magazine)
Lille
Lillie Matthiessen (Swedish ship)
Linz, Austria
Lipchitz, Berthe
Lipchitz, Jacques; Prometheus and the Vulture
Liquard, Emile
Lisbon
‘Lisette’ (secretary; femme tondue)
Liwarrak, Rosa
Loeffel, Julie
Lombardi, Vera
London, Artur; The Trial
London, Lise (née Elisabeth Ricol) La Mégère de la Rue Daguerre
London, Michel
London School of Economics
Longchamp races
Longworth, Clara Eleanor (later Comtesse de Chambrun)
looted property; see also artworks, expropriation
Lorenz, Max
Loridan-Ivens, Marceline see Rozenberg
Marceline
Louis II, Prince of Monaco
Louvre, Musée du; Ecole
Lübeck, Germany
Lubin, Germaine
Lucerne, Switzerland
Luchaire, Brigitte
Luchaire, Corinne, imprisonment and trial, post-war life, death, Ma drôle de vie
Luchaire, Françoise
Luchaire, Ghita see Fraenkel, Ghita
Luchaire, Jean, imprisonment, trial and execution
Luchaire, Julien, Altitude 3200
Lurçat, Jean
Lutetia, Hôtel
Lyons, liberation
Lysander (aircraft)
Ma Griffe (perfume)
Maar, Dora (née Henriette Theodora Marković)
McAdam Clark, Caroline
McAdam Clark, Denise see Dufournier Denise
McAdam Clark, James
MacCarthy, Dermod
MacCarthy, Marie-France (née Geoffroy-Dechaume)
McCormick, Anne O’Hare
magazines, women’s, see also Harper’s Bazaar; Vogue
Magdeburg, Germany: salt mines
Maginot Line
Mailer, Barbara
Mailer, Beatrice
Mailer, Norman
Mainbocher (couture house)
Maison sous la mer, La (film)
maisons closes see brothels
Maisons-Laffitte racecourse
Majestic, Hôtel
make-up and cosmetics, see also perfume
Malmö, Sweden
Malraux, André
Man Ray
Mandel, Claude
Mandel, Georges
Maquis (rural resistance groups)
Marbury, Elisabeth
Margaret, Princess
Marie Antoinette, Queen
Marié, Jacqueline see Fleury, Jacqueline
Marié, Pierre
Marie-Louise, Clinique
Mariéand, Jacqueline
Marigny, Théâtre
Markkleeberg (labour camp)
Marks, Leo
Marquet, Mary
Marseilles
Château de Montredon, Grand Hôtel, Saint-Pierre prison
Marshall, George C.
Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program)
Martel, Thierry
Marthe Richard, Loi (1946)
Marty, René
Marx, Karl: Das Kapital
Mascolo, Dionys
Massilia (packet boat)
Masson, André
Maurel, Micheline
Mauriac, François
Maurras, Charles
Mauthausen (concentration camp)
Maxim’s (restaurant)
Maxwell, Elisabeth see Meynard Elisabeth
Maxwell, Robert
Mayer, Melanie (later Van Cleef)
Mayer, Theresa (later Arpels) medals: awarded to women
Megève (Haute-Savoie)
Ménardais, Abbé Henri-François
Mendl, Sir Charles
Mendl, Elsie, Lady see de Wolfe, Elsie
Ménétrel, Bernard
Mesnil-Amar, André
Mesnil-Amar, Jacqueline
Mesnil-Amar, Sylvie
Metal Workers’ Union
Metcalfe, Edward Dudley (‘Fruity’)
Métro, Barbès station
Meurice, Hôtel, Meynard, Elisabeth (later Maxwell)
MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service)
Michaud, Cécile
Michel-Lévy, Simone
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (musical production)
Milhaud, Darius
Milice (Vichy paramilitary force)
Miller, Lee (later Lady Penrose)
millinery see hats and millinery
Miró, Joan
Miss Dior (perfume)
Mistinguett (actress)
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind
Mitford, Diana (later Lady Mosley)
Mitford, Nancy
Mitford, Unity
Mithridate (resistance network)
Mitterrand, François
mobilization, general (1939)
modelling (fashion)
Modiano, Patrick
Modigliani, Amedeo
Molière: Le malade imaginaire
Molière, Lycée
Moltke, Freya von
Moltke, Helmuth von
Molyneux (couture house)
Momm, Theodore
Monaco
Monceau, Parc; Hôtel Camondo
Mondrian, Piet
Monnier, Adrienne
Mont-Valérien, Fort (Suresnes)
Montand, Yves
Montmartre
Montoire-sur-le-Loir (Loir-et-Cher)
Montparnasse, cemetery
Montredon, Château de (Marseilles)
Monts et Vallons (hunt)
Moorehead, Caroline
Morand, Paul
Morat, Marie-Antoinette (Lucienne Guézennec)
Morawiecki, Jean
Moreau-Evrard, Emilienne
Morgenbesser, Colette
Morin, Etienne (Steve Passeur)
Morocco
Morris, Violette
Mory, Carmen
Mosley, Diana, Lady see Mitford, Diana
Mother’s Day
motor racing motto, national: Vichy replacement of
Moulin, Jean
Movement of Patriotic Women
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Muggeridge, Malcolm
Munich agreement (1938)
Murphy, Norine and Marilyn
Murphy, Robert
museums Cluny Museum, Musée de l’Homme, Musée de l’Orangerie, Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Picasso Museum, see also Jeu de Paume, Louvre
music hall see cabaret and music hall
Mussolini, Benito
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nathan, Marguerite
National Council of the Resistance
Natzweiler-Struthof (concentration camp) trial
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939)
Némirovsky, Fanny
Némirovsky, Irène; pre-war life, marriage and family, moves children from Paris, on post-invasion Exode, life in Issy l’Evêque, arrest and deportationn, death posthumous publications and reputation, David Golder, Suite Française
Netherlands: German invasion, Jewish deportations
Neuengamme (concentration camp)
Neuilly-sur-Seine
New Look (fashion collection)
New York; Florence Gould Hall, Metropolitan Opera; Museum of Modern Art
New York Times
New Yorker (magazine)
Nice
Nicholas, Elizabeth: Death Be Not Proud
Nicolson, Sir Harold nightclubs see also cabaret
Nizan, Henriette
Noailles, Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de
Noilly Prat (vermouth)
Nora, Simon
Nordmann, Hélène
Nordmann, Marie-Elisa
Normandy landings (June 1944)
North Africa campaigns
Norway: German invasion; Jewish deportations
Notre Dame Cathedral
Nouveaux Temps, Les (newspaper)
Nouvelles de Bordeaux et du Sud-Ouest, Les (newspaper)
Nuremberg laws
Nuremberg trials
Oberg, Carl; Bousquet-Oberg accords (July 1942)
Oddon, Yvonne
Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE)
O’Kelly, Count Gerald
Olschanesky, Sonia
Olympic Games: Amsterdam (1928), Berlin (1936)
One Two Two (brothel)
opera
Orangerie, Musée de l’
Orchestre National de France
Organisation Civile et Militaire (resistance network)
orphans, post-war
OSE see Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants
O’Sullivan, Maureen (‘Paddy’)
‘Otto List’ (of banned books), outbreak of war
Overlord, Operation see Normandy landings
Palewski, Gaston
Panthéon
Pantin, Gare de paper shortages
Papillaut des Charbonneries, Hervé
parachute silk, used for clothing
Paramount Cinema
Paris Match (magazine)
Paris Mondial (radio station)
Paris Studios Cinema, Billancourt
Paris Welcome Committee (post-liberation organization)
Paris-Soir (newspaper)
Pariser Zeitung (German-language newspaper)
Parker, Charlie
Passeur, Steve (Etienne Morin)
Pastré, Comte Jean
Pastré, Comtesse Lily
Pastré, Comte Pierre
Pat Line (resistance group)
Patou, Jean (couture house)
Patten, Susan Mary (later Alsop)
Patten, William
Patten, William, Jr
Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Pauchard, Pierrette
Paulhan, Jean
Peace Congress (1949)
Pearl Harbor: Japanese attack (1941)
Peenemünde, Germany: army research centre
Pelletier, Adeline
Pelletier de Chambure, Elisabeth see Rothschild, Elisabeth de
Pelletier de Chambure, Laurent Augustin
Peninsula (underground journal)
Penrose, Sir Roland
Père Lachaise (cemetery)
Péreire, Isaac and Emile, perfume
Perry, George: Bluebell
Péry, Pierre
Péry d’Alincourt, Jacqueline (née de La Rochebrochard) in Ravensbrück post-war life
Pétain, Marshal Philippe: First World War service, relationship with Germaine Lubin marriage, becomes head of Vichy government, signs armistice at Compiègne, granted full governing powers, radio broadcast on ‘collaboration’ meets Hitler, supporters of, and armed resistance, life in Vichy, and execution of Marie-Louise Giraud, statement on denouncers, flees to Germany, returns to France, trial
Petit Palais (exhibition hall)
Petit Théâtre de la Mode (fashion show)
Petite prairie aux bouleaux, La (film)
Petite Roquette, La (prison)
Peyerimhoff, Claude de
Pforzheim, Germany: prison
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh
‘phoney war’
Piaf, Edith, ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette, Rien’, ‘La Vie en Rose’
Picasso, Claude
Picasso, Conchita
Picasso, Pablo, artworks exhibitions
Picasso, Paloma
Pickford, Mary
Picpus Cemetery
Pigalle
Piper, John
Pithiviers (Loiret), internment camp
Plaza Athenée, Hôtel
Plewman, Eliane
Pol Roger, Odette
Poland: refugees from, German invasion, atrocities, Polish victims of medical experimentation (lapins)
Polignac, Marie-Blanche, Comtesse de
political prisoners, women: deportation and internment in concentration camps, return of surviving deportees to Paris, post-war views on deportees
Politzer, Maï
Popular Front government (1936–38)
Portalet, Fort du (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
Porter, Cole: ‘Anything Goes’
Portes, Comtesse Hélène des
Portes de la nuit, Les (film)
Postel-Vinay, André
Postel-Vinay, Anise see Girard, Anise
Poulenc, Francis
Pour Elle (magazine)
Pour Qui l’Esprit Vive (artists’ organization)
Pourcher, Yves
Prade, Georges
Premier Rendez-Vous (film)
Prison sans Barreaux (film)
prisoners of war: French, German
Probst, Anthony
Probst Solomon, Barbara
propaganda: anti-Jewish, artists’ and entertainers’ trips to Germany
prostitution
Proust, Marcel
Provisional Government (1944–46)
publishing industry: books, magazines
Puissant, Emile
Puissant, Renée (née Rachel Van Cleef), death and burial
Purcell, Henry
Quai de la Gare
Queen Elizabeth, RMS
queuing (for food)
Radifé, Rika
Radio-Paris; ‘Children’s Hour’; ‘Répétez-le’
railways, used for deportations
Raimu (actor)
Rath, Ernst vom
rationing: clothes, food tobacco
Ravensbrück (concentration camp), gas chamber, forced march of former captives, trials, post-war accounts of and responses to
Raya, Nita
Rebatet, Lucien
Rebatet, Véronique
Reboux, Caroline
Red Cross: American, French, German, International Committee (ICRC), Swedish
Reichenbach, Jeanne (later Blum)
Reiman, Abraham
Reiman, Arlette see Testyler, Arlette
Reiman, Malka
Reinach, Béatrice see Camondo, Béatrice
Reinach, Bertrand
Reinach, Fanny
Reinach, Léon
Reinhardt, Django
Rembrandt
Rémy, Colonel (Gilbert Renault)
Renaudot, Prix (literary award)
Renault (motor manufacturer)
Renault, Gilbert (‘Colonel Rémy’)
Renault, Louis
Renault, Maisie
Rennes
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste; Irène Cahen d’Anvers
Renty, Claude de
Renty, Germaine, Comtesse de
Renty, Robert, Comte de
‘Répétez-le’ (radio programme)
reporters, women see journalists and reporters
Resistance: de Gaulle’s appel of 18 June 1940, early movements, structure of movements and networks, armed action and sabotage, Alliance network, Organisation Civile et Militaire, post-1942 growth of, Maquis, National Council of the Resistance, escape networks, newspapers and news-sheets, arrests, punishments and deportations, role in liberation of Paris, return of deportees to France, post-liberation organizations post-war accounts of and views on, see also ADIR; FFI; SOE
Résistance (journal)
restaurants and cafés: pre-war, wartime, post-war, see also Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Maxim’s; Le Tour d’Argent
Revolution (1789), 150th anniversary
Reynaud, Paul
Ricci, Nina
Ricci, Robert
Richard, Marthe
Riffaud, Madeleine
Rigal, David
Rigal, Sadie (‘Florence’; later Waren)
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Riols, Noreen
Ristelhueber, Paul (‘Boulos’)
Ritz Hotel
Rivesaltes (Pyrénées-Orientales): internment camp
Rivet, Paul
Roberts, Mary Louise: What Soldiers Do
Rochas, Marcel
Rohner, Simone
Rol-Tanguy, Cécile
Rol-Tanguy, Henri
Rolfe, Lilian
Romainville (prison/transit camp)
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roquette, La (prisons)
Rosbaud, Hans
Rosenberg, Alexandre
Rosenberg, Micheline
Rosenberg, Paul
Rosenthal, Manuel
Roskothen, Ernst
Röthke, Heinz
Rothschild family
Rothschild, Alexandrine de
Rothschild, Elisabeth de (Lili; née Pelletier de Chambure)
Rothschild, Baroness Germaine de (née Halphen)
Rothschild, Baron Philippe de
Rothschild, Baroness Philippine de
Rothschild Hospital
Rouff, Maggy
Roush, Eleanor
Rousseau, Jeannie (later Vicomtesse de Clarens), in Ravensbrück post-war life
Rousso, Henry
Rowden, Diana
Rowlande (Jean Weston)
Rozenberg, Marceline (later Loridan-Ivens)
Rubinstein, Helena
Rüdt von Collenberg, Baron Kurt
Rüdt von Collenberg, Ursula
Rumpf, Paul
Russia see Soviet Union
‘Ruth A.’ (Heidelberg woman in Paris)
Sabbagh, Georges
Sabbagh, Jean
Sackville-West, Edward (later 5th Baron Sackville)
Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de
Sadoul, Georges
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Sainte-Marie de Paris, Abbaye
Sainte-Trinité, Église de la
Salomon, Andrée
Salomon, Charlotte
Salon d’Automne
salons
Salzburg Festival
Sampieri, Charles, Count
Sampieri, Irène see Cahen d’Anvers, Irène
Samuel, Raymond
Samuel, Vivette
San Francisco: Florence Gould Theater
Sanary-sur-Mer (Var)
Sánchez-Albornoz, Claudio
Sánchez-Albornoz, Nicolás
Sandrini, Pierre
Sandzer, Miriam
Sansom, Odette see Churchill, Odette
Santé, La (prison)
Sarkozy, Nicolas
Sartre, Jean-Paul; Les Mains sales
Say, Rosemary
Scali, Arlette
Scali, Elie
Schiaparelli, Elsa
Schiller Theatre, Berlin
Schleier, Rudolph
Schneersohn, Isaac
Schoenbeck, Maximiliane von (‘Catsy’)
Schubert, Franz
Schultz, Walter
Schwob de Lure, Colette
Sciences Po (Institute of Political Studies)
Scribe, Hôtel
Sections Sanitaires Automobiles (SSA)
Seidel, Ina
Seidmann, Paul-Emile
Seligmann & Company (art dealers)
Selinger, Shelomo
Senlis (Oise)
Sereny, Gitta
Séréville, Geneviève de
Sert, Misia
Service de Restitution des Biens Spoliés
Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO)
Settle, Alison
Sévigné, Collège
Sézille, Paul
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare and Company (bookshop)
shoes
shops and shopping: wartime, post-war, see also clothes; food; jewellery
Sicherheitspolizei see SiPo-SD
Sigmaringen, Germany
Signoret, Simone (née Kaminker)
Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of
Sinclair, Anne
SiPo-SD (Sicherheitspolizei; security police)
SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) see MI6
ski-ing
Smith, Emma
Smith College, Massachusetts
Snow, Carmel
Soccodato, Aline (‘Madame Billy’)
SOE (Special Operations Executive): formation, organisation of French operations, relations with other services, women agents and operatives, see also Atkins Vera, Bloch, Denise, Borrel, Andrée; Churchill, Odette; Inayat Khan, Noor; Lefort, Cecily; Leigh, Vera; Riols, Noreen; Rolfe, Lilian; Rowden, Diana; Szabo, Violette; Witherington, Pearl
Soehring, Hans-Jürgen
Solinsky, Aline
Solomon, Harold W.
Sorel, Cécile
Sorya, Geneviève
Sotomayor, Aimée de (later de Heeren)
South Africa
Soviet Union: Nazi-Soviet Pact, German invasion; advances on Eastern Front, Red Army rapes and atrocities, Stalinism; Cold War
Spanier, Ginette
Spanish Civil War, refugees and dissidents
Spears, Sir Edward
Special Operations Executive see SOE
Speidel, Hans
Spoerry, Anne (‘Dr Claude’)
Spoerry, François
Spring Wind, Operation (July 1942)
SSA see Sections Sanitaires Automobiles
Stalin, Joseph
Stalingrad, Battle of (1942–43)
Stanton, Ben
Statuts des Juifs (Vichy)
Stauffenberg, Claus von
Stein, Gertrude
Stern, Edgar
Stevenson, William: A Man Called Intrepid
STO see Service du Travail Obligatoire stockings
Stoecklin, Max
Stonehouse, Brian
Straub, Peter
Strauss, Richard, strikes
Stülpnagel, Carl-Heinrich von suffrage, women’s
Suhren, Fritz
suicide
Suite Française (film)
Suresnes; Fort Mont-Valérien
surrealism
Sutherland, Graham
Suttill, Francis (‘Prosper’)
swastika: displayed in Paris, branded on suspected collaborators
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Szabo, Tania
Szabo, Violette
Szenes, Árpád
Tabarin, Bal (music hall)
Tachy, Château de (Seine-et-Marne)
Talleyrand, Sylvia de
Tartière, Drue (née Leyton)
Tartiére, Jacques
Tavernier, Denise
Taylor, Dame Elizabeth
TB see tuberculosis
Tchernycheff, Countess Mara
Teissier du Cros, François
Teissier du Cros, Janet (née Grierson)
Témoignage Chrétien (resistance news-sheet)
Testyler, Arlette (née Reiman)
Texcier, Jean
theatre: during Occupation, post-liberation, post-war, see also cabaret and music hall, Comédie-Française
Théâtre de la Mode (fashion show)
Theresienstadt (concentration camp)
Thielbek (German prison ship)
Thompson, Dorothy
Tillion, Emilie
Tillion, Germaine; in Ravensbrück; Le Verfügbar aux enfers
Time (magazine)
time zone, changes to
Tipu Sultan
Tito, Josip Broz
tobacco allowances
Tocqueville, Marie-Louise de
Toklas, Alice B.
Tokyo, Palais de
Tomforde, Anne-Marie
tondues, les see collaboration horizontale, post-liberation treatment
Torch, Operation (1942)
Torgau, Germany: labour camp/munitions factory
Toulon: scuttling of French fleet (1942)
Toulouse
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de
Touquet, Le (Pas-de-Calais)
Tour d’Argent, La (restaurant)
Tours
Toussaint, Jeanne
Toute la Vie (newspaper)
trade unions
Trauner, Alexandre
Treite, Percy
Trenet, Charles ‘La Mer’
Trial, The (film)
Trinité, La (Église de la Sainte-Trinité)
Trocmé, André
Truffaut, François tuberculosis (TB)
Tuileries Gardens
Tuloup, Marie-Odile typhus
UGIF see Union Générale des Israélites de France
Ullmann, Bernard: Lisette de Brinon,
Ullmann, Claude
UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Union Central des Arts Décoratifs
Union Confédérale des Locataires de France
Union des Jeunes Filles de France
Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF)
Urach, Count Albrecht von
Utrillo, Maurice
V-weapons
Vaillant-Couturier, Marie-Claude
Valcroissant (Drôme)
Valland, Rose
Vallat, Xavier
Valmondois (Seine-et-Oise)
Van Cleef, Alfred
Van Cleef, Estelle (née Esther Arpels)
Van Cleef, Melanie (née Mayer)
Van Cleef, Rachel/Renée see Puissant Renée
Van Cleef, Salomon
Van Cleef & Arpels (jewellers)
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony
Varga, Gisy
Vassar College, New York
Vaucresson
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
VE Day (May 1945)
Veil, Simone (née Jacob)
Veillon, Dominique
Vélodrome d’Hiver; Vel’ d’Hiv round-up (July 1942)
Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher)
Vendôme, Place
venereal disease
Vermeer, Johannes
Vernay, Denise (née Jacob)
Versailles: Villa Trianon
Veterans’ Affairs, Ministry for
Vichy (Allier), Hôtel Parc et Majestic, Opera House, Queen’s Hotel
Vichy government: formation, armistice with Germany, granted full governing powers, relations with Germans, anti-Semitic laws and measures, social conservatism and glorification of the family, and German occupation of free zone, declining authority, establishment of Milice, leaders flee to Germany, trials of leaders
Vieira da Silva, Elena
Vienna; Mozart Week (1941)
Vildé, Boris
Vilmorin, Louise de
Vincendeau, Ginette
Vincennes: British Military mission
Violette (film)
Virgili, Fabrice
Visiteurs du Soir, Les (film)
Vittel (Vosges): internment camp
Vlaminck, Maurice de
Vogue (magazine), American edition, British edition
Voisins-Lavernière, Guy, Comte de
Voix et Visages (ADIR newsletter)
volunteer work, women’s
voting rights; women’s
WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force)
Wagner, Richard
Wagner, Winifred
Wallington, Mary
Wannsee Conference (1942)
War Crimes Investigation Unit (British)
war crimes trials
Waren, Mark
Waren, Stanley
Wartski, Fanny
Wartski, Renée
Washington, DC: Holocaust Memorial, Museum, International Spy Museum, Vichy Embassy
Washington Post,
Wassem, Violette
Watteau, Jean-Antoine
Wattenberg, Frida
Waugh, Evelyn
Wechsberg, Joseph
Weidmann, Eugen
Weiss, Jonathan: Irène Némirovsky
Welczeck, Count Johannes von
welfare benefits
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Welsh, Mary (later Hemingway)
Wertheimer, Pierre and Paul
Wesport, Connecticut
Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of (‘Bendor’)
Weston, Jean (Rowlande)
Weston, Joe
White, Theodore H.
Wiborg, Mary Hoyt (‘Hoytie’)
Wickey, H.J. (Canadian intelligence officer)
Wieviorka, Annette
Wildenstein, Georges
Wilson, Woodrow
Windelband, Wolfgang
Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII)
Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of (earlier Simpson)
winter weather: (1939–40), (1943–44), (1944–45), (1946–47), (1947–48)
wireless operators, women
Witherington, Pearl (later Cornioley)
Withers, Audrey
Wodehouse, Ethel, Lady
Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
Workman, Debra
Worth (couture house)
Wresinski, Father Joseph
yellow star badges (for Jewish population)
Yohannes, Peter
Yugoslavia
Zanta, Léontine
Zay, Jean
Zazous (protestors)
Zurich
Zyklon B (gas)